Major hurricane expected to form this week and threaten Florida’s Gulf Coast The HillFlorida braces for potential heavy-hitting hurricane threatening damaging winds and storm surge CNN‘Go into hurricane mode now’: Helene expected to lash Florida as Category 3 storm this week USA TODAYHurricane tracker: Latest paths and forecasts as possible Category 3 storm churns in the Caribbean Yahoo! VoicesGov. Ron DeSantis declares State of Emergency in 41 Florida counties WWSB